Trio Palladio - Works for Piano Trio - Music & Performance - CD

The Fondation Bettencourt Schueller is celebrating thirty years of commitment to choral singing. To mark the occasion it has decided to bring together nineteen excerpts from recordings made by ensembles it has supported since 1989 thanks to the Liliane Bettencourt Prize for Choral Singing. The Foundation has entrusted the artistic direction of this album to Laurence Equilbey music director of the accentus chamber choir and Insula Orchestra and winner of the Liliane Bettencourt Prize for Choral Singing in 1995. The anthology reflects the diversity of the repertories performed by the winners of the Liliane Bettencourt Prize. In addition to accentus the list includes William Christie s Les Arts Florissants Hervé Niquet s Le Concert Spirituel Raphaël Pichon s Ensemble Pygmalion Leonardo García Alarcón s Namur Chamber Choir Geoffroy Jourdain s Les Cris de Paris Mathieu Romano s Ensemble Aedes Roland Hayrabedian s Musicatreize and the Maîtrise de Notre-Dame de Paris conducted by Lionel Sow.

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The album Melancholia presents songs and piano mazurkas by Polish composers Chopin Paderweski and Szymanowski. There are only 19 songs officially verified as Chopin s works all of them inspired by lyrics of his contemporaries poets. Most of Chopin s vocal compositions were published after his death and combined as Op.74. The poetry of Adam Mickiewicz inspired Ignacy Jan Paderewski to work on a cycle regarding love longing and passing of the time. Six songs were created between 1887-1893. Paderewski died in New York after having a remarkable European and American career as an outstanding pianist composer philanthropist and politician. The Twelve Kurpian Songs by Karol Szymanowski demonstrates the composers fascination in simplicity vitality and energy going side by side with an expression of the Kurpian dialect. In the cycle Word Songs to words by Julian Tuwim the listener can hear a fantasy world hidden between music lines and lyrics by Julian Tuwim. Word Songs were composed in the summer of 1921 Karol dedicated them to his sister - Stanislawa Korwin-Szymanowska who was also the first interpreter of these vocal works.

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The theatre music of Poland is a peculiar phenomenon; almost every Polish composer has created a score for the needs of this spectacle and many have entirely devoted themselves to this field. This music is awarded and honored. Nevertheless it practically does not exist in a concert or recording community. Stanislaw RADWAN is one of the best known and respected composers of theatre and film music. He composed several hundred pieces on commission of the most eminent Polish directors and all leading theatres in Poland. He linked a great part of his artistic path to Cracow: starting from studies at the local State Higher School of Music in the class of Krzysztof Penderecki through activities in the famous Kraków theatres ending at the cooperation with the Piwnica pod Baranami cabaret. It is natural that a series of recordings of The Musical Trace of Cracow documenting the theatre and film music of eminent artists from this full of theatres writers actors directors and composers city opens an album dedicated to the work of Radwan.

Duo Aeternica consists of clarinet player Kjell Fageus and Love Derwinger Sweden s best grand-piano player. The album contains a nice selection of romantic classical music from various composers including Franck Faure Nadia Boulanger Lili Boulanger T

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Our Leo Fall cycle continues with Die Rose von Stambul (The Rose of Stamboul). This operetta in three acts offers music that is full of feeling. This highly emotional work celebrated it s premiere with great success at the Theater an der Wien in 1916. Die Rose von Stambul s 422 straight performances made it the most successful operetta in the history of the Theater an der Wien next to Franz Lehár s The Merry Widow. Within the shortest time performances followed throughout Central Europe. However like Emmerich Kálmán s The Csárdás Princess it did not become an international success - primarily because of World War I since the theaters of the Allied counties had stopped staging German-language works. Achmed Bey the son of a Turkish minister is married to Kondja The Rose of Stamboul. However she has exchanged letters with a passionate novelist and fallen in love with him. What she does not suspect: none other than her husband is behind this pseudonym -which provides plenty of opportunities for the expression of emotions - rendered in the Viennese waltz mode ( Ein Walzer muss es sein ) or tunes of Oriental flair.

The young Czech soprano Hana Blažíkóva is one of the most exciting voices in the baroque scene today. Conductors such as Herreweghe Suzuki and Luks frequently invite her to record and perform and she regularly appears at renowned festivals. For her debut as a solo artist she selected German cantatas and sacred concertos from the latter half of the 17th c. works characterized by alternations between freely rhapsodic monodies and sections of great contrapuntal polyphonic density typical of their time exhibiting virtuoso coloratura declamation and heartfelt courtly love for Jesus.

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2010 release. The main repertoire of Ars Musici is spiritual music filled up with high class classical and special interest recordings.

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All-new remasterings of live and previously unissued recordings: a Mendelssohn concert from 1962 demonstrates Thomas Jensen s undimmed power to galvanize an orchestra towards the end of his life. From his very last concert given a fortnight before his death in 1963 works by Handel and Mozart find him (and pianist Annie Fischer) on fluent sparkling form. Novelettes by the Danish Mendelssohn Niels W. Gade make a neat coupling and the set closes with the Dvorák overture which launched the DRSO on the international scene. Another landmark album in the wider appreciation of a conductor whose legacy has been too narrowly restricted to the music of his homeland.

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